Sowing Seeds: Growing in the garden.

Sowing Seeds is a project initiated by BA Fine Art students Emma Saunders & Duncan Wilson. The project aims to educate school children on sustainable living and healthy eating through forms of experimentation, exploration, enjoyment and play using the social form of gardening.

Having achieved funding from and with support from SIFE, Emma & Duncan are now working alongside the Students Union within the University of Plymouth and the Youth Offending service to create a vegetable garden within College Road Primary School.

Sowing Seeds is also in conversation with Diggin' It! allotment scheme Plymouth, to help inspire the children as to what they can grow. Through this blog Emma & Duncan hope to build an online community where College Road Primary School can converse with other schools with similar intentions including Mylor Bridge Primary School, Cornwall, where Duncan has initiated a similar project.

Wednesday, 27 April 2011

Growing in the garden.

Hello All,

Duncan and I have been busy today transporting to and from College Rd, ready for our day of teaching tomorrow. The plan is to fill a planter box (one per class) with all the plants that have started maturing and now need more space! We are both also splendidly excited about viewing all the 'Ideal Garden' drawings that the children have created.For now though, i will leave you with some images of things sprouting up in the garden, and house, and windowsill(s)...come to think of it everywhere in the house is covered in seed trays! Yippee!
Emma